Complete Turnover
Hi!
I visited H&F before but didn't feel it concerned me. Now that has changed. Trying to pop up what's left of my life. Some background: I quit nicotine in 1992. After that some attempts in leading a healthier life, regularly irregular. Got a gym card maybe ten years ago, sometimes didn't go there for a couple of years. I once dropped 10 lbs in one month counting calories for real, wasn't sustainable.
Now there seems to be things happening on a more prolonged, hopefully permanent basis. I left the car at home 1.5 years ago when going to work, for getting at least some exercise. Then I quit alcohol half a year ago. I did a health survey and found my blood pressure was a bit high. Decided to drop 20 lbs, have now been on vegetables and VLCD-drinks for a month. Got a small chock when checking the blood pressure, it had gone down to normal, must mainly be the smaller salt content? That was a huge unexpected bonus!
So there's 15 lbs left to drop, the reason is mainly the waistline. All this is very well, but now I've decided to go to the gym every day for one hour. I will regulate what I do there, for not getting overloaded. Mainly hoping the exercise will do some good for my psyche, I have a tendency for pondering things and getting tired. I chose one hour a day, because that's a substantial investment and practically what I can come up with.
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Think I need to post at least once a month. Have stabilized around 85 kilograms, may lack real motivation to take it lower. So let's see. Weighing myself almost daily.
Somehow I'm in the mood to take the attempt on 80kg, feels even nice to eat less for now. Only possible lows will tell if the feeling transforms to action.
After a week's trip without a scale I found my weight to be 86.5. After that a quite ideal series of 86.3, 86.0 and 85.9. Shows even keeping weight is almost as losing weight.
Found a culprit. Doing some physical work and had treated myself each day with half a small candy bag "for glucose". But the old truth you'd better avoid bigger calorie density holds, weight wandering up. So I cut out those 400 extra calories, felt a bit tired the first day, fixed it with a nap. And the weight thanks, 86.0 again.
Kind of starting over, but from an overall lower level, will tell new record lows.
85.6. Technique is paying off.
85.4. Add 1/2-1 kilograms to get the mean. Thinking about loosening up my goal for now, have got some beating from this. Maybe below 85kg every single time? Then my mean would be somewhere between 83 and 84. BMI 23-24, with some middle body. Ok, going below 85 even once for a starter.
85.3
Feeling in "the mode" again. Was creeping towards 87, but now below 86. Guess my next low could be within a week.
85.4, not very far from it.
Not quite a new low, but have been several times on the 85kg recently. And have definitely ate less.
85.4. Have a feeling I've been losing some liquid.
85.4 yet again. Interesting how little you need to eat for even keeping the weight.
Oops, 85.0!
